Prophet's Prey

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Description

PROPHET'S PREY is a unique and intricate look inside the world of one of the largest cults currently operating in the United States, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). When Warren Jeffs assumed leadership of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints in 2002, he brought his dictatorial and sadistic desires to bear on a community ripe for exploitation. The FLDS was already a paternalistic religion with a history of polygamous and under-aged marriage, and Warren incorporated and expanded these illegal practices using his power to religiously justify rape and pederasty. Though he was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list and, eventually, captured and sentenced to life in prison, Jeffs continues to prey on the FLDS community in absentia, his power largely unchecked and unchallenged to this very day.

As horror upon horror unfolds in Prophet's Prey, Amy Berg's shocking documentary about the mad polygamist Warren Jeffs and his followers, one may marvel, in horror, at the elaborate forms that deviancy can take.

What's shocking about the film, which is as effective in its way as HBO's Scientology expose, Going Clear is how widespread his ugly cult still is.

Las Vegas Review-Journal

10/8/2015 by Christopher Lawrence

Just in time for Halloween, Showtime is unleashing one of the creepiest, most depraved characters you'll ever see on television: Warren Steed Jeffs.

Paste Magazine

10/6/2015 by Ross Bonaime

Despite going too far in one of its arcs while not going far enough in the other, Prophet's Prey is still an excellent distillation of the FLDS and Jeffs, presenting as much information as possible behind this truly awful story.

Salt Lake City Weekly

10/5/2015 by Scott Renshaw

Despite the fragmented nature of Berg's exploration of this mysterious group, it's chilling when providing a comprehensive look at one happens when one twisted man convinces enough people that he speaks for God.

NYC Movie Guru

10/5/2015 by Avi Offer

A powerful, enraging and heartbreaking expos.

Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

10/2/2015 by Josh Terry

People of religious faith -- LDS Church members in particular -- will likely be disturbed to see how Jeffs was able to distort familiar doctrines into such awful ends.

Consequence of Sound

10/2/2015 by Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

Prophet's Prey has few answers, but no shortage of blistering facts, and the sad hope that others can be saved. Eventually.